Embroidery needle



L.. D. HOVER.

EMBROIDERY NEEDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR, 1,1, 1921.

1 ,42 1 ,4'79. Patented July 4, 1922.

UNITED STATES LEE 1). HOVER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

EMBROIDERY NEEDLE.

Application filed April 11,

To all 10 720m it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEE D. Hovnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Embroidery Needles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to needles employed for hand embroidery work, and its object is to provide a needle of this kind which can be easily threaded, and also to provide the needle with a novel and improved gage device for regulating the depth of the working stroke, said gage device being adjustable according to any depth of stroke desired.

The objects stated are attained by means of a combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the needle; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal section.

Referring specifically to the drawing, the needle is a tubular body 5 formed with an integral shank 6 which is also tubular or hollow. The forward end of the shank is tapered and the needle body has a diameter which is considerably less than the diameter of the shank, it being an integral continuation of the tapered portion. The end of the needle is pointed and has an eye 7 just back of the point.

The tubular structure of the needle body 5 is discontinued at its forward extremity containing the eye 7, it being here left flat and given a point.

The needle body 5 is also formed with a longitudinal slot 8 starting at its inner end where it joins the shank 6 and terminating where the flat extremity containing the eye 7 starts. The rear end of the slot 9 is en larged as shown at 9, and diametrically opposite this end of the slot, the tube forming the shank 6 has a side aperture 10.

The needle is threaded by passing the thread or yarn through the aperture 10 and the enlarged rear end 9 of the slot 8. after which it is carried forwardl above the slot to the eye 7 and passed through the latter. Upon passing the yarn or thread through the eye 7 and drawing it taut, it slips through the slot 8 into the hollow of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4:, 1922.

1921. Serial No. 460,394.

needle body, which completes the threading operation, the same being thus easily effected. v

The gage device is a piece of wire bent to form a resilient shank 11 and a loop 12 at the forward end thereof. The rear end of the shank has a lateral bend 13 forming a latch for locking the gage device in ad justed position. The loop 12 straddles the needle body 5 and the shank 11 extends rcarwardly therefrom to seat alongside the shank 6, with the part 13 seating in one of a longitudinal series of keeper apertures 14 in the shank.

The gage device is slidable in the direction of the length of the needle and it is firmly held in adjusted position by the latch part 13. It will be understood that the distance of the loop 12 from the pointof the needle determines the depth of the working stroke of the needle, or the extent it is to pass through the fabric to be embroidered, this distance being readily varied as desired by sliding the gage device back or forth.

It will be noted that the loop '12 does not lie at a right angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the needle body 5, but that it is arranged obliquely, its portion from which the shank 11 extends being slightly in advance of the diametrically opposite portion. This oblique position of the loop causes it to bind against the needle body at opposite points, and italso puts the shank 11 under tension. in a direction to firmly hold the latch 13 seated in the selectedkeeper aperture 14, whereby accidental disarrangement of the gage device is effectually prevented.

It will also be noted that the loop is open at the site of the slot 8. and that the shank I1 is at one side of the slot clear of the same, and hence these parts do not interfere with the free passage of the thread or yarn into the slot when the needle is threaded as hereinbefore described.

I claim:

The combination vith an embroidery needle, of a gage device comprising a loop passing around the body of the needle obliquely to its longitudinal axis, a resilient shank carrying the loop and seating alongside the needle body, and means for locking the shank to the needle body.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

LEE D. HOVER. 

